Naum Aronson

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Naum Aronson ( Russian Наум Львович Аронсон , born December 25, 1872 in Krāslava , then the Russian Empire , now Latvia ; † September 30, 1943 in New York City , United States ) was a sculptor who was mainly active in France.

At the age of sixteen he began studying at Ivan Petrovich Trutnev's painting school in Vilnius , but after ten months he returned to Kraslava. In 1891 he came to Paris , where he met Auguste Rodin . He studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs , with Hector Lemaire and at the Académie Colarossi .

After completing his military service in the Russian army, he returned to Paris and, from 1896, created the busts of well-known people such as Louis Pasteur , George Washington , Ludwig van Beethoven , Grigori Rasputin and Spartacus . From 1897 he took part in the Paris art salons . In 1912 a joint exhibition of the works of Naum Aronson and his friends David Widhopff and Alexander Altman took place in Paris .

In 1913 he visited Krāslava, where he donated a house for disabled children. After the outbreak of World War II , Aronson left France and settled in the United States in 1940, where he died in 1943.

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